Virtual Event | Developmental Science and the Metacrisis (Theo Dawson)

We're living in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world. Right now, relatively few of us are equipped with the skills, resilience, agility, and endurance required to tackle its challenges and leverage its opportunities. Moreover, the lifeworlds we inhabit often work against us, depriving us of the human-normal formative and (mostly social) experiences we need to develop optimally. For the last 30 years, my colleagues and I have been searching for simple, scalable ways to optimize mental development for everyone, not to increase intelligence or developmental scores, but to give everyone the opportunity to build skills for learning the way our brains are designed to learn—with joy, satisfaction, and just the right amount of pain. Minds that develop in this way grow faster, better, and further, and people with minds like these are more hopeful, effective, adaptive, and resilient. In this talk, I'm going to share highlights of the research…